qs' depth

Hi there,

I’m using express + body-parser in my app and I ran into some very odd issue with deeper keys in a nested object coming out with brackets surrounding the keys, took me a while to figure out what was causing it.

Apparently qs accepts a depth option in order to go deeper… is there any support planned for this, or should I write my own qs parser in that case?

Cheers

[dougwilson]

Hi @AndersonZacharyT , I don’t think that file has anything to do with the body-parser module. If you are talking about the query string in Express, then you can do the following:

app.set('query parser', function (str) {
  return qs.parse(str, {
    allowPrototypes: true,
    limit: 10
  });
})

[AndersonZacharyT]

@dougwilson Hey Doug–thanks for all of your work! I am facing this issue, using Express/LoopBack, and even though my Express is > 1.11 I seem to have hit this wall… anything coming to mind?

More info: My code is hitting this within Express/lib/utils:

function parseExtendedQueryString(str) {
  return qs.parse(str, {
    allowPrototypes: true
  });
}

and as you can see the options for qs are hard-coded, but adding a limit:10 solves all of our problems…